Boy uses his radio equipment to demonstrate how sound is produced and transmitted.
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SHOWS HOW PHIL USING HIS AMATEUR RADIO EQUIPMENT TO DEMONSTRATE TO JIMMY THE NATURE OF SOUND. DEMONSTRATES THE VARIOUS MEDIA WHICH TRANSMIT SOUND, THE WAVES OF COMPRESSED & EXPANDED AIR LEAVING A RINGING BELL, THE REFLECTION OF SOUND, THE SPEED OF SOUND & THE CHARACTERISTIC WAVES OF SOUND.
SOUND RADIOS AIRWAVES BELLS
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Addeddate
2002-07-16 00:00:00
Ccnum
asr
Closed captioning
no
Collectionid
00795
Color
B&W
Country
United States
Identifier
Natureof1948
Numeric_id
730
Proddate
1948
Run time
10:43
Sound
Sd
Type
MovingImage
Whisper_asr_module_version
20230805.01
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Reviews
(6)
Reviewer:
James Salva
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June 10, 2025 Subject:
Spuzz just likes to watch via this site I think
I thought at first Spuzz likes what I like, but I changed topics/subjects and I still just see him everywhere.
Reviewer:
Dodsworth the Cat
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September 17, 2024 Subject:
Sound is Exciting
Chicago radio announcer and song-sayer (Love Words on Dot Records) Ken Nordine opens this short as the camera pans across a small-town Sears Roebuck store
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to stop at young Jimmy Foster near some railway tracks. He is startled by sound of a bell added to the soundtrack. What's his reaction? Why, to tie a string to a little block of wood (didn't you carry this as a kid?) and put it against a bell to watch it vibrate. This epiphany made Jimmy run to see his cousin, Philip Hanson, operator of ham station W9TZW. The cheap-looking lettering looks like a Coronet prop. Indeed it is, as the ham license at the time this short was made belonged to Robert H. Santmyers, 1115 Oak Av., Evanston, Ill. If he had something to do with Coronet, I don't know. Phil demonstrates how sound travels. His ham shack has pin-up pictures at 3:15. One is a shirtless muscle guy. There's an oscilloscope at work after the usual Coronet list. "Say, that's wonderful!" excitedly remarks Jimmy at the demonstrations. There's a bit of animation in this film.
Reviewer:
JayKay49
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December 11, 2012 Subject:
All Ya Need To Know About Sound
Well done and I always like an educational presentation like this that summarizes the material at the end. Good film even if it lacks the humor of campiness
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and naivate and deals with a mundane subject. I totally forgot that sound travels better through things denser than air. But it makes sense.
Reviewer:
ERD
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March 9, 2006 Subject:
"Nature of Sound" nothing special
Average science film for youngsters. Nothing creative or special about this one.
Simpleton Coronet production about sound basically takes the Mr. Science approach to things, but the kid actor in the piece is just so annoyingly chipper
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about the whole thing that the whole science thing is distracting ovwer what he could say next. After feeling a vibrating bell with a block of wood and string that he just HAPPENS to have in his pocket, the boy visits his cousin at the college and learns all about how wonderful sound is. "Gee, I sure can have a lot of fun meauring the distance of sound!" he chirps at one point. I wonder if he has any friends.
Reviewer:
DanAmrich
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April 7, 2003 Subject:
Basic audio physics...you know, for kids
Always carry a wood block on a string! You never know what it will teach you about The World Around You (tm). Little Jimmy Foster gets the snot scared
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out of him by leaning against a railroad crossing bell. And when he hangs his wood block next to the vibrating bell...hey, that gets him thinking...how does sound work, anyway? Helpful pal/ham radio operator Phil Hanson teaches him all about the way sound works, by describing and performing a few basic science experiments, including a keen oscilloscope and an ocarina. Alas, Phil has to go and confuse things by bringing up the speed of light, but Jimmy still thinks he can have "a lot of fun measuring the distance of things by sound." Watch for Phil to misspell the word "Characteristics." And that's that.
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